British Paralympian Ben Sneesby won silver at the Delancey British Alpine Skiing Championships in Tignes on Saturday.

The 23-year-old from High Wycombe was the fastest British competitor in the men’s sitting slalom race but lost out on gold by one second to Lou Braz-Dagand from France.

The championships, which run from March 25 to today, mark one of the biggest events in the British alpine skiing calendar and provides the chance to see the best of the British talent take to the piste.

Sneesby, who had a tumour removed from his spine at just three months old which left him with an incomplete spinal cord injury, meaning he has no sensation in his left leg and minimal in his right, uses a sit-ski to race and claimed he had a great time on the snow.

He said: “It was absolutely lovely to be out here at the British Champs, I haven’t raced in a little while, longer than I would have liked to. 

“It’s so nice to be back out here, it kind of feels a bit like home. I’ve got my mum and dad out here and my girlfriend and they watch the race, and we have the sun, so it was really lovely. 

“The first run I was probably slightly conservative, so I let it go a bit more on the second run and won the second run, but unfortunately didn’t win overall because I was a couple of seconds off."

Having competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi where he came eleventh in the men’s slalom, Sneesby claimed it’s a special feeling racing for Great Britain.

He added: “Having been to Sochi and competed out there that was really the pinnacle of representing my country but the pride that I feel across the different levels of races doesn’t change."